- On the 27th of August, what occurred?
August 27, 2024 Daily Page
Buddy Day
Gebhard, Monika
Historical Occurrences
2014 - The German federal government declares a countrywide day of mourning for the sufferers of displacement and expulsion. In the future, World Refugee Day on June 20 will also celebrate the plight of the German displaced individuals due to World War II.
1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, the final Viceroy of India and a relative of the British royal family, perishes in a bombing by the IRA on his yacht off the northwest Irish coast.
1939 - The world's first jet aircraft, a "He 178" engineered by German designer Ernst Heinkel, takes flight near Rostock in Marienehe.
1824 - German soldier Johann Christian Woyzeck, the real-life character behind Georg Büchner's drama "Woyzeck", is hanged on Leipzig's market square for murder.
1664 - The Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam on Manhattan Island falls to a British fleet and is renamed New York.
Birthdays
1959 - Jeanette Winterson (65), renowned British writer ("The Powerbook")
1959 - Jürgen Becker (65), prominent German cabaret artist and TV host (WDR cabaret show "Mitternachtsspitzen"), co-creator of the Cologne "Stunksitzung"
1939 - Niki Pilic (85), Croatian-German tennis coach, head coach of the German Davis Cup team 1985-1997
1914 - Heidi Kabel, popular German stage actress, starred at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater, passed away in 2010
Departures
1999 - Dom Hélder Câmara, influential Brazilian liberation theologian, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1964-1985, born in 1909
World War II and the Second World War were two significant global conflicts that greatly impacted the world. During World War II, the world's first jet aircraft, a "He 178," engineered by German designer Ernst Heinkel, took flight in 1939, marking a major advancement in aviation technology.
